Publishers announced for new Breviary!
  • RMSawicki
    Posts: 148
    smcatherine:

    I think Volume 1 is for Advent/Christmas, not Ordinary Time 1-17, right? It is usually the lightest of the four, since it covers the shortest amount of elapsed time.

    Gaudete in Domino Semper!
  • monasteryliturgistmonasteryliturgist
    Posts: 624
    @smcatharine it seems to me ascension will have a similar issue. Obviously this is just an observation from pictures, but although their version looks smaller in pages height and width, the depth of the book looks much thicker.Based on some videos I have seen of it being handled.
  • MonasticChantress
    Posts: 24
    Word on Fire gave me the same answer about the weight: 2.5 lbs for the Lent/Easter volume, and basically the same for the two Ordinary Time volumes. That is a tad heavier than the current Large Print volume one of our Sisters uses. We would all have to wear wrist supports to hold that for the hours each day that we sing the Office. Their volume is clearly the best value, and beautiful, but they brag about all the extra white space on their pages!

    Ascension, on the other hand, has not yet responded to my first or second e-mails asking about weight, and it has been over a week since the second e-mail.
  • novusgordo
    Posts: 32
    Re the Canadian implementation, a response from +Dowd (Sault Ste.-Marie) via Reddit:
    As for LH, a canonical vote is underway, but as ballots are due by July 20 we do not have results. That said, the proposal is to use the USA base text with Canadian adaptations re the calendar and propers for saints.
    IOW it sounds like we end up the same place we are now - one lectionary and psalter for the Mass, another for the Office - but at least with the texts now actually bearing some resemblance to the Latin typical editions.
  • igneusigneus
    Posts: 456
    We would all have to wear wrist supports to hold that for the hours each day that we sing the Office.

    Time to switch from handheld books to large choir books laying open on the choir stalls?
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • GerardH
    Posts: 693
    Time to switch from handheld books to large choir books laying open on the choir stalls?
    Speaking of which, what happened to that thread of diminutive chant scholars studying ordinary-sized chant books?
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